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Dustin Carlson
Dustin Carlson is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and improviser known for his innovative approach to music. His work explores the multifaceted nature of time, delving into its various colors, textures, and motions. Carlson's compositions often feature complex layering and looping structures, reflecting his fascination with the intricate rhythms and patterns found in both music and the natural world.
Throughout his career, Carlson has collaborated with a diverse array of musicians and artists, contributing to projects that span multiple genres and artistic disciplines. His discography includes the album "Air Ceremony," released in 2019, which showcases his distinctive style and compositional prowess.
In addition to his work as a performer and recording artist, Carlson has composed music for dance and other collaborative art forms, further demonstrating his versatility and commitment to expanding the boundaries of contemporary music.
Carlson's contributions to the music community have been recognized by peers and critics alike. Saxophonist Michaël Attias praised his music for its deep exploration of time and movement, while guitarist and composer David Torn lauded Carlson as a "genius 'new music' composer" with a continually evolving voice.
His performances have been featured in various venues and festivals, including a solo guitar concert as part of the Boonville Music Series, where he presented original works inspired by the Anderson Valley.
Carlson continues to push the boundaries of his art, engaging in projects that challenge conventional perceptions and invite audiences to experience music in new and profound ways.
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Dustin Carlson: Air Ceremony
by Dustin Carlson
Dream-time, work-time, play-time, ceremony-time, time counted and time uncountable... Time like a desert with sinuous lines unbroken; like a forest with trees that mark space, territory, barlines; or Time like an exit ramp, a cloverleaf highway interchange with its traffic, speed shifts, and the roar of engines... The time it takes a fern to grow, an egg to dry, a bullet to fire, a shoreline to erode ... or a body to touch the ground after a leap; or a ...
Continue ReadingSecret People: Secret People
by John Sharpe
Even though he doesn't appear on the album, the music of Secret People has an affinity with the warped precision of keyboardist Matt Mitchell. Perhaps not surprising as drummer Kate Gentile forms one half of the duo Snark Horse with Mitchell, who also plays on guitarist Dustin Carlson's leadership debut Air Ceremony (OOYH, 2019), as does the third member of this trio, alto saxophonist Nate Morgan. However this wily outfit is a collective, with the six compositions credited to the ...
Continue ReadingWebber / Morris Big Band: Both Are True
by John Sharpe
On Both Are True Canadian composers and reed players Anna Webber and Angela Morris reimagine the language of the big band. They extend the tradition through adventurous arrangements spiced with the unpredictability of improv, by co-opting the nimbleness of a much smaller group, and reveling in non-standard techniques. Webber has already garnered plaudits for the work of her Simple Trio with Matt Mitchell and John Hollenbeck, while Morris' ventures such as the Motel Trio boast a lower profile so far. ...
Continue ReadingDustin Carlson: Air Ceremony
by Vincenzo Roggero
Dando un'occhiata alla formazione troviamo Kate Gentile, batterista sempre più assidua in dischi e in gruppi importanti, Matt Mitchell, nome ormai affermato nel jazz che conta, qui impegnato al mitico Prophet 6, Nathaniel Morgan ed Eric Trudel ai sassofoni, Danny Gouker alla tromba, abituali frequentatori del jazz meno canonico, il bassista Adam Hopkins presenza attiva della nuova scena newyorchese e infine Dustin Carlson, chitarrista e compositore (tutti i brani portano la sua firma) dalla idee in perenne movimento. Come la ...
Continue ReadingGuitarist Dustin Carlson Releases 'Krakowians'
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Dustin Carlson’s Krakowians is an ode to the city of Krakow, Poland. “My experience of Krakow is one of awe, bewilderment, and playfulness; the rich history and imposing architecture, the wild endless nightlife, the young musicians I met seemed to carry an excitement and earnestness that hit different than my colleagues in NY and the older people I met seemed to carry a wisdom that went much farther than my own sense of history.” Krakowians is a quintet featuring, Bartosz ...
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Dustin Carlson's music bespeaks a fascination with the many varieties of time, its colors, flavors, densities, textures; the motions of time, its extremes of slow growth and quick change. And also with the layering of time, the machinery of orbits, concentric loops, the human body that is a cosmos of looping circulatory systems escaping gravitational force to lumber into movement and execute some flashy moves at a party, at a ceremony, with stars in its veins, a sun in its stomach and arms that span galaxies... This is what only music, when it is truly music, can reveal and teach. Funk is the preacher...
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Dustin Carlson
Location: New York City
Instrument: Guitar
Born: June 5
